Hold up — I had a great time talking to the RIAA guy
TL;DR
Today, I’m talking with Mitch Glazier, who is CEO and chairman of the RIAA. This conversation was a real full-circle moment for me: I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA became everyone’s villain for suing kids for downloading music. That was when I decided to go be a copyright lawyer, which set the rest of my career in motion — and Mitch was in the background as a young lawyer at the RIAA working on those cases.
Nauti's Take
For AI workflows, the origin of training material is becoming an operational control issue. Small teams should document where every external dataset came from, what usage rights apply, and how synthetic slop will be filtered before turning the process into a scaled content workflow.
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